Dr. Serhan Cosar is a Senior Lecturer in Robotics at De Montfort University. He obtained the Bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Kocaeli University, Turkey in 2005. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Between 2013-2015, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France. He then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Lincoln, UK. He is the author of 3 book chapters, 9 international journal papers (CVIU, IEEE-TCSVT) and 16 international conference papers (IROS,ICCV,AVSS). He has participated in a number of European and National research projects. His research interest includes robot perception, human tracking, activity recognition, sparse representation, and distributed estimation.